A Closer Look At That CCS Pipeline From Nebraska To Wyoming -- One Well Coming Off Confidential List -- July 8, 2022

ERCOT: grid at risk this weekend. Link here. From yesterday: 

... link here:

Buffett, OXY: bought more? It's hard to say, but this was on twitter last night:

And here, link:

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Back to the Bakken

Far Side: link here.

WTI: $102.60.

Active rigs: 43 or thereabouts.

Friday, July 8, 2022: 9 for the month, 9 for the quarter, 348 for the year

• 38694, conf, Lime Rock Resources, Behr 16-21 1TFH-LL-155-91,

RBN Energy: Tallgrass sees Trailblazder conversioon as pathway to CO2 market. Archived.

Carbon-capture projects have begun to pick up steam in recent months, especially in the Midwest and Great Plains, with three major developments already taking shape and the potential for more. At the same time, the need to move natural gas east from the Rockies has declined over time and Tallgrass Energy Partners — a leading midstream player in that space — is looking for ways to make fuller use of its Rockies Express and Trailblazer gas pipelines. 

In today’s RBN blog, we look at an agreement between Tallgrass and Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) to capture and sequester carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions from a corn-processing complex in Nebraska, how that deal relies on the planned conversion of the Trailblazer Pipeline from natural gas to CO₂, thought to be the first of this scale, and why Tallgrass sees potential in carbon-capture projects across the region.

From a reader yesterday:

• How the Iowa City Press-Citizen is reporting this story.
• How the Des Moines Register is reporting this story.
• How The Guardian is reporting this story.

Wiki entry here.

From the RBN Energy link:

Tallgrass said May 18, 2022, that it had entered into an agreement with ADM that would pave the way for Tallgrass to capture CO₂ from ADM’s corn-processing complex in Columbus, NE (yellow star in Figure 1), and transport it to Tallgrass’s planned Eastern Wyoming Sequestration Hub (orange oval) for permanent underground storage. 

Later that month, Tallgrass filed for Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval to abandon 392 miles of its Trailblazer (pink line) from natural gas service in order to convert that segment to CO₂ transportation service. The repurposed pipeline, which runs through Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska, would be capable of transporting more than 10 million tons per annum (MMtpa, 528 MMcf/d) of CO₂ to a sequestration hub for permanent storage. Tallgrass believes it to be the first pipeline conversion of this scale in the U.S.

Figure 1. Trailblazer and Rockies Express Pipelines, Archer Daniels Midland Corn-Processing Facility and Eastern Wyoming Sequestration Hub. Source: RBN